The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-09
Senator Logan'S Death-HiS
General characteristics.
MRS. LOGAN'S POPULARITY
The Crush at the New Year Reception
Prospects for the Edmunds-
Tucker Bill.

. Tue one JuSG ClOS6u III WOulu D0 dlIuOs
t impossible to imagine. Everybod
s seemed to be out of town. The leadin
hotels and other places of public resor
were deserted. Even the theatres hav
been thinly patronized. In word, til
festivities of Christmas appear to hav
used up the energies of an otherwis
active, gay, pleasure-seeking people.
The death of Senator Logan, o
course, has been the all-absorbing topi
of conversation in the city. The sac
and sudden event was the subject o.
comment by everybody. Logan's grand
record as soldier was referred to with
pride, and his ability as Senator in
the national Congress was alluded tC
with admiration. AS a soldier he was
conceded to be brave, as Senator. in
corruptible. His courage on the field oil
battle will always live. He knew nc
fear. His career as a statesman is one
to be envied in that it is unsullied in the
slightest degree. John A. Logan was
poor, but in the midst of innumerable
temptations he was never known to be
connected with anything that savored
of chookedness. He was ambitious, it is
true. He would like to have attained to
the high position of President of the
| United States. Among his personal
friends he did not disguise his ambition
in this respect. Like everybody else,
the deceased Senator was a man who
had his faults and failings. He did not
pretend to be perfect. If person ever
did him service he never forgot either
| the person or the service. In this con-
| nection he was a man of extreme love
and extreme hatred. He was generous,
and yet he could be cruel. A good turn
gained his loYe; bad turn engendered
his hatred. These traits of character
have been noticed in the man again and
again, and their truthfulness can easily
be ascertained from the lips of his
friends, with many of whom 1 have
talked within the last few days.
Since the death of the Senator the
most profound sympathy has been
expressed for his widow, who, perhaps,
IS one OF the most popular women in
Washington to-day. 1t has always
been thought that outside of his bravery
as soldier, and his position as q
senator, he was an ignorant man-that
had it not been for his wife. he would
never have been able to hold the posi-
ton he has held for so many wears.
Senator Logan, however, was neither an
llllterate nor an ignorant man, yet he
was by no means scholar. He was
simply a soldier, and by virtue of the
love his comrades bore him he was
made Senator. AS politician, he was
the most popular man in Illinois. He
had great many enemies, but strange
to say nearly all of them were men of !
his own party. In this regard
he would have lost his head
many time had it not been Tor the
shrewd judgment of his wife. Such a
woman is worthy of worship and imita-
ton. Possessed of ability, she ever
sought to raise her husband in the scale |
OF intelligence; to make him equal to |
every occasion; to help him in his
duties as public man, and she per
formed her part right well. As have
SAID, there is no woman more
popular in Washington to-day
save and except Mrs. Cleveland
than Mrs. Logan. She has always
been a splendid entertainer. Her
parties and receptions have always been
success. Dashing, vivacious, intellect
ual, everybody who had the pleasure of
her acquaintance enjoyed her hospital
lty, as also that OF the deceased Senator.
The funeral services over the body of
the dead statesman were held in the
Senate chamber on Friday last. A yerv
large and distinguished audience were
present. The weather was fair over
head but owing to recent fall of snow.
the streets were covered with two
inches of slush. To and from the Can't
toll, the procession was witnessed by
crowds OF people. Everybody
seemed to be anxious to pay respect to
the dead man. His comrades of the q.
A. K. were out in great force, while the
Inc OF carriages, carrying the most
representative men of the
nation, must have been over mile long.
1t looked to me at one time as if the
head of the procession had turned on to
Fifteenth Street before the tail had
airly left the Capitol grounds. It was
IN immense affair. Such an exhibition !
II respect must have been very gratify-
ng the widow and children and friends
If the deceased.
The general has died a poor man
8eyond his income as Senator. he had
7ery little else to live upon. Hence it
$ not to be wondered that, considering
he style he had TO keep up, he Is dis
covered to be in debt The wonder. i
indeed, IS that he IS not irretreiyiablv in '
ie0t. His recently published book. | | I
IN told. has helped him great deal &
-nancial y,still his family is by no means {
Independent. The people of the country E
ave been quick to realize this. The {
reath was scarcely out of his bodv q
atll subscription lists were opened ali {
yer the nation, and already yerv
andsome sum has been subscribed r /
Irs. Logan. Her home in Washington I
III De entirely free OF debt, and almost t
quick as Congress meets, a pension /
Ill be voted for Mrs. Logan similar in t
mount TO that paid Mrs. Hancock. Q
ONE people may object both to the g
lISIng of a subscription. or the grant {
y OF q pension, but such GROWERS are V
w and far between. The majority of d
re people III the country at large will
pleased TO pav tribute in any Way no b
brave general, and so pure a states |
an, 8 few GROWERS to the contrary Fl
1twithstanding.
II has been sad Christmas and New a,
ears Tor the Logan family. a coupIe tc
weeks ago nobody thought of such "
ltoward an event as the death of the a.
neral. He appeared to be in fair ~
little, but nothing 10 n,
use any alarm. The day after Christ 10
as, however, finds him dead and the
v before New Years long procession is
lows him TO the grave. The general s
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